A federal judge ruled on Monday that the military must move forward with the policy allowing transgender people seeking to join the military to be able to do so in Jan. 2018The ruling is a clarification from an earlier injunction against Trump’s move to halt the policies allowing out transgender people to serve, according to reports from Washington Post and Buzzfeed News. There are two current federal court injunctions against the order: one in D.C. and one in Maryland. The Justice Department filed a notice to appeal the injunction in D.C. The Justice Department asked that the judge clarify the injunction and whether or not it prevented Defense Sec. James Mattis from “exercising his discretion to defer” the 2018 date for the “accession portion.” That addresses certain aspects of the recruitment policies in regard to transgender military service. New accession policies were set to be made that would allow transgender people join by July 2017. Mattis later pushed that date back to Jan. 2018, however. The judge clarified that the court’s injunction meant the Jan. 2018 date must stay in place. The document reads, “Those policies allowed for the accession of transgender individuals into the military beginning on January 1, 2018. Any action by any of the defendants that changes this status quo is preliminarily enjoined.”

A federal judge ruled on Monday that the military must move forward with the policy allowing transgender people seeking to join the military to be able to do so in Jan. 2018

The ruling is a clarification from an earlier injunction against Trump’s move to halt the policies allowing out transgender people to serve, according to reports from Washington Post and Buzzfeed News.

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There are two current federal court injunctions against the order: one in D.C. and one in Maryland. The Justice Department filed a notice to appeal the injunction in D.C.

The Justice Department asked that the judge clarify the injunction and whether or not it prevented Defense Sec. James Mattis from “exercising his discretion to defer” the 2018 date for the “accession portion.” That addresses certain aspects of the recruitment policies in regard to transgender military service.

New accession policies were set to be made that would allow transgender people join by July 2017. Mattis later pushed that date back to Jan. 2018, however.

The judge clarified that the court’s injunction meant the Jan. 2018 date must stay in place.

The document reads, “Those policies allowed for the accession of transgender individuals into the military beginning on January 1, 2018. Any action by any of the defendants that changes this status quo is preliminarily enjoined.”